Snapshot July 2024 - CPR Owen Sound Station

The CPR station as it looks today, July 4, 2024

The Owen Sound current CPR station is a good example of the modernization program that the CPR started after the second world war. The railway built six stations in a similar style between 1945-1948 (this station was opened in 1946-47). The Owen Sound station having been the most advanced of this group of six. Passenger service ending  in 1970 and the city purchased the station in 2010. In 2018 it opened as the Mudtown Station, micro brewery and restaurant.  

The station has stayed pretty much unchanged which is nice to see. Things such as the telephone booth inside remains including the original phone. The laminate panel walls are in excellent shape. I visited the station having supper and of course a beer this summer. A few railway artifacts remain inside also including the ticket window and original bathrooms...George Dutka 

The station still has its original phone booth built into the waiting room.

The ticket counter is still intact. 

The roadside doors. The rail side area has an outdoor patio added.

The laminated wood walls are still in very good shape. The phone booth is at the end of the hall.